♀Joane Boridge

Joane Boridge (married 30 November 1590) raised eleven children in Taunton in Somerset, England, where her husband Henry Cogan was a clothier. She was the tenth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Frances Coggan (died 1671).

Marriage and children

Henry Cogan and Joane Boridge were married at the church of St Mary Magdalen in Taunton on 30 November 1590. Eleven children followed over the next seventeen years, all of them of the same parish: Johane, the eldest, born about 1591, then John, Judith, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, Grace, Richard, Marian and Frances, and last Henry, baptized on 6 April 1607.

Henry made his will on 27 November 1612 and was buried at St Mary Magdalen four days later. The will left £10 to each of six of their daughters, to be paid when they married. In the years after his death three of the children were buried at the same church: Marian in 1614, Elizabeth in 1615 and Richard in 1620. Nothing is known of Joane’s own family, and the date of her death is not known.

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Sources

Her marriage and the baptisms of her children come from George E. McCracken’s study “Early Cogans English and American” in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, volume 111 (1957), which says of her only that she was a woman “of whose antecedents nothing is known.” Burton W. Spear’s Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630 and the Register’s own index write her name Joan; this page follows the spelling Joane.